Emails: No. 2 FBI Official Recused Self From Clinton Probe One Week Before Election
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe recused himself from the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server just one week before the presidential election, according to new Justice Department records obtained by Judicial Watch, a government watchdog.
McCabe sent a brief email, dated Nov. 1, 2016, to fellow senior FBI officials, in which he formally recused himself from the Clinton email investigation, which the FBI code-named “Mid-year.”
“As of today I am voluntarily recusing myself from the ongoing Mid Year investigation,” he wrote in the email. “I will continue to respond to congressional requests for historical information as necessary.”
Judicial Watch obtained the email and other related documents through Freedom of Information Act litigation.
During the campaign and in the months since, President Donald Trump, conservative groups, and several Republicans lawmakers criticized McCabe for failing to recuse himself from the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s private email server after media reports that the 2015 state Senate campaign of McCabe’s wife received $675,000 from two groups either run by or closely associated with Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. (Read more from “Emails: No. 2 FBI Official Recused Self From Clinton Probe One Week Before Election” HERE)
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